There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
Daniel DennettI think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
Daniel DennettMy faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorseโand, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth ofโa proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!
Daniel Dennett